High-Field Electrodynamics

✍ Scribed by Frederic V. Hartemann (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2001
• Leaves: 689
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tremendous technological developments and rapid progress in theory have opened a new area of modern physics called high-field electrodynamics: the systematic study of the interaction of relativistic electrons or positrons with ultrahigh-intensity, coherent electromagnetic radiation.

This advanced undergraduate/graduate-level text provides a

✦ Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION:. Lorentz Transform and 4-Vectors. Covariant Electrodynamics. Gauge Condition and Transform. ELECTROMAGNETICS: Green and Delta Functions, Eigenmode Theory of Waveguides. Plane Waves and Photons. Relativistic Transform of the Refractive Index: Cerenkov Radiation. Three-Dimensional Waves in Vacuum, Ponderomotive Scattering. RELATIVISTIC ELECTRONS AND RADIATION: Coherent Synchrotron Radiation, Relativistic Fluid Theory. Compton Scattering, Coherences, and Radiation Reaction. Bibliography. Index.

✦ Subjects

Physical Sciences;Physics;Applied Physics;Condensed Matter Physics;Optoelectronics